Sport: Mao's Muscled Minions

CHEN DUMPS AMERICANS WITH ONE
JERK, trumpeted the headline in Hong Kong's Communist Wen Hui Pao last
week. AMERICANS POWERLESS TO THREATEN
CHEN CHING-KAI. Occasion for the rejoicing was a weight-lifting meet in
Moscow, in which Red China's little (127 lbs.) Chen hoisted 326¼ lbs.
in the clean-and-jerk to shatter the world featherweight record held by
the U.S.'s Isaac Berger.

Chen's feat was the latest product of the ten-year athletic program
launched by Red China's Mao Tse-tung with the avowed intention of
producing citizens "capable of more and harder work in China's
socialist reconstruction." Red China's muscled minions, according...